Applying Media Richness Theory to Essay Writing Instruction - A Case of an Elementary School

Author

Shyi Huey Wu ; Bor Jiunn Hwang ; Ya Ping Fan ; Ching Hui Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Food & Beverage, Vanung Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

376

Abstract

Essay standards are generally determined by teachers´ subjective opinions. The tacit knowledge requires choosing correct type of communication media and picking a suitable knowledge transfer mechanism. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to reduce the subjectively in feedback to student essays. The quasi-experimental method is used. The result shows that teaching strategies in writing can enhance student´s learning outcomes. With the strategy of information feedback, writing effectiveness is more significant.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational institutions; feedback; linguistics; teaching; communication media; elementary school; essay standards; essay writing instruction; information feedback; knowledge transfer mechanism; media richness theory; quasiexperimental method; student learning outcomes; teacher subjective opinions; teaching strategies; writing effectiveness; Analysis of variance; Computers; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Media; Writing; information feedback; media richness theory; quasi-experimental method; tacit knowledge;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2014 Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kitakyushu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2014.99

Filename

6998345